S. P. Dickson, whom a New York Times article referred to as a mechanician, died during the race after his car lost a wheel, causing both occupants to be thrown out.
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Edward Barlow, alias Booth (1639–1719), was an English priest and mechanician.
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Christopher Peter Jürgensen (30 October 1838 – 26 December 1911) was a Danish precision mechanician and instrument maker.
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Vladimir Andreevich Steklov (; 9 January 1864 – 30 May 1926) was a Prominent Russian and Soviet mathematician, mechanician and physicist.
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Giordano Riccati was the son of the theoretical mechanician Jacopo Riccati and brother of Jesuit mathematician and physicist Vincenzo Riccati.
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He is known as mechanician, who made seminal contributions to many branches of applied mechanics, applied physics, and engineering sciences.
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Nicolai Jacob Marstrand (5 August 1770 – 12 July 1829) was a Danish mechanician and inventor. He was the father of painter Wilhelm Marstrand.
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A mechanician is an engineer or a scientist working in the field of mechanics, or in a related or sub-field: engineering or computational mechanics, applied mechanics, geomechanics, biomechanics, and mechanics of materials. Names other than mechanician have been used occasionally, such as mechaniker and mechanicist. The term mechanician is also used by the Irish Navy to refer to junior engine room ratings. In the British Royal Navy, Chief Mechanicians and Mechanicians 1st Class were Chief Petty Officers, Mechanicians 2nd and 3rd Class were Petty Officers, Mechanicians 4th Class were Leading Ratings, and Mechanicians 5th Class were Able Ratings.
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The event was marred by the deaths of two-time and defending winner David Bruce-Brown and his mechanician Tony Scudellari in a practice accident. Bruce-Brown's car was repaired by Barney Oldfield and driven to a fourth-place finish. Ralph DePalma and his mechanician Tom Alley were injured when DePalma's Mercedes touched the rear of Bragg's Fiat and overturned, ejecting its occupants.
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Veniamin Petrovich Myasnikov (4 December 1936 — 29 February 2004) was a Soviet Mathematician, Mechanician and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1992).
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Johannes Peter Langgaard (12 May 1811 - 24 July 1890) was a Danish mechanician and brickyard owner. He established Hakkemose Brickworks at Taastrup in 1847.
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After he ceased being an MP, Atkinson authored a book on Sir Joseph Whitworth (The World’s Best Mechanician, 1996) and a play (Old Merrypebbles).
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The new ratings, however, proved to be only a demobilization expedient and lasted less than nine months.1920 Aircraft Year Book, pp. 276–278Two non-flying ratings for aircraft mechanics, "Aviation Mechanician" and "Balloon Mechanician", also received a 50% increase if engaged in flying duty. In 1920, when the Air Service was made a statutory arm of the line, the National Defense Act of 1920 also ended the differentials in flight pay and standardized it at 50%.
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This minor planet was named after Russian mathematician and mechanician Pafnuty Chebyshev (1821–1894). The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 September 1978 (). The lunar crater Chebyshev was also named in his honor.
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Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'AlembertHis last name is also written as D'Alembert in English. (;"Alembert, d'". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. ; 16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist.
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This minor planet was named for Ekaterina ("Katja") Iosko, a laboratory assistant and orbit calculator at the discovering Simeiz Observatory (). She was the daughter of Iosif Gavrilovich Iosko, who also worked as a mechanician at the observatory.
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The abilities are separated into five trees: Spiritual Guide, Wind Master, Mechanician, Wildling, and Physicist. A Spiritual Guide increases the Shaman's ability to save more mice, a Wind Master focuses on the Shaman's mobility, a Mechanician gives the Shaman more options when it comes to building, a Wildling enhances both objects and mice, and a Physicist increases the Shaman's power. Trolling is considered a part of the game, as stated in the in-game 'Help/Rules' menu. Some players infrequently decide to troll, whether playing as the Shaman or a normal mouse.
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Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe, QC (12 May 1816 – 29 April 1905), known previously as Sir Edmund Beckett, 5th Baronet and Edmund Beckett Denison, was a "lawyer, mechanician and controversialist" as well as a noted horologist and architect.
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This minor planet was named after American astronomer Donald Keith Yeomans, a celestial mechanician at JPL and astrometry-expert of the International Halley Watch. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 18 September 1986 ().
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Tobias and his son David Tobias also performed for William II. Tobias also received the honor as court mechanician. His father had died in 1869 and fifteen months later, on April 20, 1870, Tobias also died. He was 58.
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Huajian Gao (, born December 7, 1963) is a Chinese-American mechanician who is widely known for his contributions to the field of solid mechanics, particularly on the micro- and nanomechanics of thin films, hierarchically structured materials, and cell-nanomaterials interactions.
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Imre Gyula Izsák (Zalaegerszeg, Hungary, February 21, 1929 – Paris, France, April 21, 1965) was a Hungarian mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and celestial mechanician. His father, Gyula Izsák, taught geography and biology in Zalaegerszeg. His mother, Aranka Pálfi, was a mathematics and physics teacher.
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Nikolay Gur'yevich Chetaev (23 November 1902 – 17 October 1959) is a Russian Soviet mechanician and mathematician. He was born in Karaduli, Laishevskiy uyezd, Kazan province, Russian Empire (now Tatarstan of Russian Federation) and died in Moscow, USSR. He belongs to the Kazan school of mathematics.
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On August 2, 1880, he was appointed chief engineer and mechanician at the Freedmen's Hospital. He attended Howard University Medical College in 1880-1881 and received an A.M. (a master's degree) in 1883 from Livingstone College.Lamb, Daniel Smith. A Historical, Biographical and Statistical Souvenir.
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In 2004, the American Society Of Mechanical Engineers gave him their Timoshenko Medal for his contributions to nonlinear continuum mechanics and thermodynamics.Confessions of a slightly frayed continuum mechanician, Morton Gurtin, 2004 Timoshenko Medal Acceptance Speech.2004 Timoshenko Medal, American Society Of Mechanical Engineers, retrieved 2010-01-22.
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September 1905: was renamed Tenedos II, and commissioned in January 1906 as part of the new "Tenedos" training establishment for boy mechanician apprentices.Warlow, "Shore Establishments of the Royal Navy", p.140. 11 October 1910 On closure of the "Tenedos" establishment, sold for breaking up at London for £7,525.
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The rate was only applied to certain technical specialists and no longer exists. In the New Zealand Post Office, which provided telephone service prior to the formation of Telecom New Zealand in 1987, "Mechanician" was a job classification for workers who serviced telephone exchange switching equipment. The term seems to have originated in the era of the 7A Rotary system exchange, and was superseded by "Technician" circa 1975, perhaps because "Mechanician" was no longer considered appropriate after the first 2000 type Step-byStep Strowger switch exchanges began to be introduced in 1952 (in Auckland, at Birkenhead exchange). It is also the term by which makers of mechanical automata use in reference to their profession.
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Jean Jacques Moreau (31 July 1923 – 9 January 2014) was a French mathematician and mechanician. He normally published under the name J. J. Moreau. Moreau was born in Blaye. He received his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Paris, then became a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
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Hu Peiquan (; 19 June 1920 – 19 February 2019) was a Chinese engineering mechanician, aerospace engineer, and educator. He was a distinguished professor and founder of the Department of Engineering Mechanics at Northwestern Polytechnical University. He founded the Journal of Northwestern Polytechnical University and served as its chief editor for more than 60 years.
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The "Draughtsman-Writer" automaton by Henri Maillardet Maillardet's automaton is drawing a picture Maillardet's automaton (or Draughtsman-Writer, sometime also known as Maelzel's Juvenile Artist or Juvenile Artist) is an automaton built in London circa 1800 by a Swiss mechanician, Henri Maillardet. It is currently part of the collections at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
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They were: Lieutenant Arthur Laverents of Cheyenne, Wyo.(;) O. C. Cotton, mechanician. They had been picked up after nearly 30 hours of battling for their lives on a stormy sea that threatened to wreck their hydro-aeroplane. They were faint from hunger and the knowledge that the water was infested with sharks added to their mental agony.
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Domenico Maria Federici, Commentario sopra la vita e gli studi del conte Giordano Riccati, 1790 Giordano Riccati or Jordan Riccati (25 February 1709 – 20 July 1790) was the first experimental mechanician to study material elastic moduli as we understand them today. His 1782 paperG. Riccati, 1782, Delle vibrazioni sonore dei cilindri, Mem. mat. fis. soc. Italiana, vol.
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In 1870, David gave a command performance at the Royal Palace. David, like his grandfather and father, was named court mechanician in 1870. This appointment gave him official welcoming to the highest society of Holland. Because of this honor, he was entitled to have the coat-of-arms of the Imperial Court of Holland over his door.
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In 1951 the talented mechanician Waaske became camera constructor. He constructed the company's first SLR, a model with focal plane shutter, the first camera like that in Western Germany. He also constructed a more elegant SLR prototype, and later a complicated electronically controlled SLR with Compur shutter, and a stereo rangefinder camera. In 1962 Henry Wirgin bought Franka Kamerawerk.
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Marstrand was born on 13 May 1815 in Copenhagen, the son of mechanician Nicolai Jacob Marstrand (1770-1829) and Petra O. Smith (1778-1847). He was the brother of painter Vilhelm Marstrand and navel officer Osvald J. Marstrand. Their father ran a bakery in Silkegade. It was after his father's death in 1920 continued by the mother.
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It cited a series of high-profile fatal accidents, namely Bill Vukovich at Indianapolis, and the Le Mans disaster. Through 1922 and again from 1930 to 1937, it was commonplace for the cars to be two-seaters, as opposed to the aforementioned standard single-seat form. The driver would be accompanied by a riding mechanic (or "mechanician").
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From 1739 into the 1750s, von Knauss was busy with the Darmstadt great duke's court, and in 1749 he became "Hofmechaniker", Imperial and Royial Court Mechanician. Together with his brother he produced the famous Kaiserliche Vorstellungsuhr (the Imperial Representation Watch) in 1750, commemorating the tenth anniversary of Maria Theresia's rise to the throne.Entry about Friedrich's brother, Ludwig Johann, at German watchmaker website.
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Across the road were the Ukrainian police. He spent part of his youth in Budapest. He was a soldier of Austro-Hungarian Army during the World War I. Following regaining independence by Poland in 1918, he joined the Polish army and took part in Polish-Soviet War in 1920, and 1939 Defensive War. Between the wars, he worked as a mechanician in Lesko.
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Richard D. James (born 1952) is a mechanician and materials scientist. He is currently the Russell J. Penrose Professor and Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota. He was educated at Brown University and at Johns Hopkins University under the direction of J.L. Ericksen. James is known for his research in phase transitions.
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The Complete Sha'ir's Handbook covers sha'irs and also the elemental mages of Zakhara. Presented in the familiar "Complete Handbook" format. it gives role-playing and campaign advice (apprentices, dueling practices), new wizard kits (astrologer, numerologist, clockwork mage, and others), almost a dozen secret magical societies, and ten pages of new spells and proficiencies. The Mechanician, for example, crafts clockwork automata to cast his spells.
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Passepartout is Phileas' valet, and an accomplished inventor/mechanician. Although Phileas treats Passepartout very poorly (at least by today's standards), the servant is a valued member of the crew. The group's only recurring enemy is the League of Darkness, an international terrorist organization aiming to use steampunk technology to rule the world. Its leader: Count Gregory (Rick Overton), a steampunk cyborg who originally died 500 years ago.
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This minor planet was named in memory of Imre Izsák (1929–1965), a Hungarian-born astronomer and celestial mechanician, who studied the motion of artificial satellites. He also worked at the Cincinnati Observatory and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in the United States. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 February 1980 (). He is also honored by a lunar crater Izsak.
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In 1843, he became court mechanician (court magician) to William II of the Netherlands and was a favorite of his brother Prince Fredric. Prince Frederick was a great friend to David. David had four sons; two were actors, the other two were magicians. Edward was one of the greatest actors in the Netherlands and continued to perform up until his death at the age of 84.
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He completed his primary studies at Sopron and Kópháza. He finished as a mechanician technician in the Kempelen Farkas Technical School of Sopron in 1968. His first workplace was the station of the Hungarian Post Radio and Television Technology Management in Sopron. Beside his work he obtained qualification from the postal power supplying systems as well as he took part in the professional training of the Post-Technology Officer's School.
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Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov (, ; – November 3, 1918) was a Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist. His surname is variously romanized as Ljapunov, Liapunov, Liapounoff or Ljapunow. He was the son of astronomer Mikhail Lyapunov and the brother of pianist and composer Sergei Lyapunov. Lyapunov is known for his development of the stability theory of a dynamical system, as well as for his many contributions to mathematical physics and probability theory.
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The German mechanician Franz ReuleauxReuleaux, F., 1876 The Kinematics of Machinery (trans. and annotated by A. B. W. Kennedy), reprinted by Dover, New York (1963) wrote, "a machine is a combination of resistant bodies so arranged that by their means the mechanical forces of nature can be compelled to do work accompanied by certain determinate motion." Notice that forces and motion combine to define power. More recently, Uicker et al.
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This minor planet was named in honor of Norwegian astronomer Kaare Aksnes (born 1938), a celestial mechanician who worked at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in the 1970s. Aksnes is known for his studies of artificial and natural satellites, in particular for his research on the Galilean satellites, the four largest moons of Jupiter, namely Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 September 1978 ().
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Murphy began his racing career as a riding mechanic, back in the days when racing cars carried a driver and a "mechanician." He rode in winning driver Eddie O'Donnell's Duesenberg at the 1916 Corona road race, their car achieving an average speed of , a truly terrifying speed for those early days. Murphy rode with some of America's greatest drivers of the time, including Ralph DePalma, Harry Hartz, Eddie Rickenbacker, Peter DePaolo and Tommy Milton.
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Thomas Tompion (1639-1713) was an English clockmaker, watchmaker and mechanician who is still regarded to this day as the "Father of English Clockmaking". Tompion's work includes some of the most historic and important clocks and watches in the world, and can command very high prices whenever outstanding examples appear at auction. A plaque commemorates the house he shared on Fleet Street in London with his equally famous pupil and successor George Graham.
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If the car ran out of fuel, or otherwise broke down, the riding mechanic was usually responsible for running back to the pits to fetch fuel or the necessary spare parts. Riding mechanics were also referred to by the term mechanician. The position is largely associated with the early years of Championship car racing and the Indianapolis 500; however, they were also utilized in grand prix racing for a period of time.
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This attracted universal attention; the inventor became noted throughout Europe, was appointed imperial court- mechanician at Vienna, and drew the admiration of Ludwig van Beethoven and other noted composers. This instrument was sold to a Parisian admirer for 120,000 francs. von Kempelen's Chess Turk In 1805 Maelzel purchased Wolfgang von Kempelen's half-forgotten automaton chess player, The Turk, took it to Paris, and sold it to Eugene Beauharnais at a large profit.
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In 1727 he presented a memoir to the academy on masting ships, in consequence of which he was named the same year joint mechanician to that body. In 1736 he accompanied Pierre Louis Maupertuis and Alexis Clairaut in the expedition to Lapland for the measurement of a degree of meridian arc. He was the author of a Cours de mathématiques (Paris, 1766), and a number of essays on mathematical and mechanical subjects.see Poggendorff, Biog.-lit.
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John Stanley Plaskett (November 17, 1865 - October 17, 1941) was a Canadian astronomer. He worked as a machinist, and was offered a job as a mechanician at the Department of Physics at the University of Toronto, constructing apparatus and assisting with demonstrations during lectures. He found this so interesting that at the age of 30 he enrolled as an undergraduate in mathematics and physics. He stayed at the university until 1903, doing research on color photography.
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Universal theodolite made by Florenz Sartorius, c. 1910 In Florenz Sartorius (1846-1925), a University of Göttingen mechanician founded the fine precision weighing company called "Feinmechanische Werkstatt F. Sartorius" and began production of short-beam analytical balances. The new light weight material aluminum he used to produce these ensured rapid overseas sales. To allow the use of hydro power, the company moved north of Göttingen to Bovenden, where the new factory provided work for 60 people.
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Any player character may choose to learn various skills in DragonQuest. Vocations such as Ranger, Thief, Assassin, Merchant, Courtesan, Navigator, Healer, Military Scientist, Mechanician, Beastmaster, Troubador may be acquired by expending the necessary experience points. Certain other skills, such as Stealth, Horseback Riding, reading and/or writing a Language can also be practiced and improved. Characters are not limited to any particular set of skills, and a Halfling Assassin who speaks perfect Elvish is technically possible.
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After completing the 3 years in Devoy Barracks army apprentices were then relocated to a different barracks somewhere in Ireland for 9 weeks to undergo the standard "3 Star Private" military training. Naval apprentices were deployed to the Irish Naval Base in Haulbowline, Co. Cork for Mechanician training. After these 9 weeks the army apprentices were then posted to their new units in the various barracks scattered around Ireland to undergo the 4th year "On the Job" training.
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Charles Étienne Louis Camus (25 August 1699 – 2 February 1768), was a French mathematician and mechanician who was born at Crécy-en-Brie, near Meaux. He studied mathematics, civil and military architecture, and astronomy after leaving Collège de Navarre in Paris. In 1730 he was appointed professor of architecture and, in 1733, associate of the Académie des Sciences. He also became a professor of geometry, secretary to the Academy of Architecture and fellow of the Royal Society of London.
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Chessher was a very ingenious mechanician, employing a mechanic named Reeves to carry out his ideas. After 1790 he applied a double-inclined plane to support fractured legs with great success. He invented several instruments for supporting weak spines and for relieving the spinal column from the weight of the head, and for applying gentle steady friction to contracted limbs or muscles. It is to be regretted that his manuscript cases were not published, but his retiring manners prevented his merits from being fully known.
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1922 Indianapolis 500 winner Jimmy Murphy is shown here with his riding "mechanician" Eddie Olson, posing next to their Duesenberg at Tacoma Speedway. A riding mechanic was a mechanic that rode along with a race car during races, and who was tasked with maintaining, monitoring, and repairing the car during the race. The various duties included manually pumping oil and fuel, checking tire wear, observing gauges, and even massaging the driver's hands. They also communicated with the pits and spotted from inside the car.
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From ages 19 to 25, Merlin lived in Paris, where he was involved in the Paris Academy of Sciences. Merlin arrived in England on 24 May 1760, as a technical advisor to the new Spanish Ambassador to London, Juan Joaquín Anastasio Pignatelli de Aragón y Moncayo, conde de Fuentes (15th). As of 1763, Jérôme Lalande recorded that Merlin had helped to complete a large barrel organ which was built for the Princess of Wales. By 1766, Merlin was working as a mechanician with British jeweller and goldsmith James Cox.
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John Francis Brady (born January 8, 1954) is an American chemical engineer and the Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. He is a fluid mechanician and creator of the Stokesian dynamics method for simulating suspensions of spheres and ellipsoids in low Reynolds number flows. He is an elected fellow of the American Physical Society, a fellow of the Society of Rheology, as well as a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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The first-ever call from Bucharest to New York City, on December 25, 1931. Vâlcovici is first from the left, followed by Dimitrie I. Ghika of Foreign Affairs and Grigore Filipescu, president of the Romanian Telephone Company Victor Vâlcovici ( - 21 June 1970) was a Romanian mechanician and mathematician. Born into a modest family in Galați, he graduated first in his class in 1904 from Nicolae Bălcescu High School in Brăila. Entering the University of Bucharest on a scholarship, he attended its faculty of sciences and graduated in 1907 with a degree in mathematics.
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The "Draughtsman-Writer" automaton by Henri Maillardet, circa 1805 Henri Maillardet (1745–1830, born Jean Henri Nicholas Maillardet), was a Swiss mechanician of the 18th century who worked in London producing clocks and other mechanisms. He spent a period of time in the shops of Pierre Jaquet- Droz, who was in the business of producing watches, clocks, and automata. With his brothers Jaques-Rodolphe and Jean David Maillardet, Henri produced a series of automata depicting magicians. In 1805 Henri Maillardet built a spring-activated automaton that draws pictures and writes verses in both French and English.
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This minor planet was named after Scottish astrophysicist and celestial mechanician Archie Roy (1924–2012), who was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Astronomical Society, and the British Interplanetary Society, as well as the president of the Society for Psychical Research and professor at Glasgow University. His research included the restricted and general three-body problems, high-order Taylor series and the long-term stability of and the orbital resonances in the Solar System. He has also authored and published several textbooks and novels. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 19 October 1994 ().
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Ocker) requested a transfer to Aeronautical Division. His commander, Captain Billy Mitchell, approved the transfer, remarking, "I've been thinking of transferring myself." (Mitchell later would head the Air Service American Expeditionary Force in France during World War I). Ocker made the transfer on 23 September 1912, being assigned as aeroplane mechanician at the Army Aviation School at North Island, San Diego, California. The US Army taught Ocker to repair and maintain its 2 Curtiss biplanes, and he used this expertise to moonlight at the nearby Curtiss Flying School; instead of receiving pay for maintaining its airplanes he received flying lessons.
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The Ferrabees became well known for their production of cloth-making machines, steam engines, agricultural machinery and water wheels.Thrupp, Phoenix Iron Works It was here that John Lewis had invented a machine in 1815 to shear the surplus fibres or nap from the surface of cloth, using a horizontal blade. In the 1820s Edwin Beard Budding, a machinist or "mechanician", was employed by Edward's son, John, at Thrupp.Gloucester Society for Industrial Archaeology It was while Budding was working at Thrupp that Lewis' machine was developed to use rotary cutters, and Budding realised that this machine could be adapted for other purposes.
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Brunel's patent specification shows wooden framed machines, which, while they show many of the principles of the machines actually installed bear little resemblance to the final designs. The machines submitted by Brunel to the Admiralty for evaluation are now in the National Maritime Museum. Once the contract with the Admiralty had been placed Bentham engaged Henry Maudslay to make them, and it is clear the final designs had considerable input from Bentham, Maudslay, Simon Goodrich, (mechanician to the Navy board) as well as Brunel himself. Due to Bentham's absence in Russia, it was Goodrich who actually brought the block mills into full production.
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Moreover Lyapunov did not himself make application in this field, his own interest being in the stability of rotating fluid masses with astronomical application. He did not have doctoral students who followed the research in the field of stability and his own destiny was terribly tragic because of the Russian revolution of 1917 . For several decades the theory of stability sank into complete oblivion. The Russian-Soviet mathematician and mechanician Nikolay Gur'yevich Chetaev working at the Kazan Aviation Institute in the 1930s was the first who realized the incredible magnitude of the discovery made by A. M. Lyapunov.
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Earlier in 1846 Beverly had been engaged by John Medex Maddox as principal artist at the Princess's Theatre, London. In July the scenery for the revival of James Robinson Planché's Sleeping Beauty was from his brush, as were the backgrounds in the Christmas pantomime The Enchanted Beauties of the Golden Castle. In Easter 1847 he provided ingenious transformations for a revival of A Midsummer Night's Dream. While still continuing his association with the Princess's, Beverly worked for the Lyceum Theatre under Lucia Elizabeth Vestris and Charles James Mathews (1847–55), where Planché compared him with the stage mechanician William Bradwell.
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The House of Scientists is the cultural centre of Akademgorodok Morskoy Avenue The town was founded in 1957 under the auspices of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Academician Mikhail Alexeyevich Lavrentyev, a mechanician and mathematician, the first Chairman of the Siberian Branch of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, played a prominent role in establishing Akademgorodok. At its peak, Akademgorodok was home to 65,000 scientists and their families, and was a privileged area to live in. During the Soviet period (1961–1991), due to the peculiarity of the Soviet economic system, monetary rewards did not always translate into a higher standard of living.
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His early life was passed at Dublin, and then he went to Philadelphia, where he gave evidence of his genius as a scholar and mechanician. It is supposed that he taught a school there and associated with Benjamin Franklin, who soon learned to appreciate young Kinnersley, whom he designates as "an ingenious neighbor." When Franklin saw Dr. Spence, a Scotsman in Boston, experiment with a glass tube and silk, and observed the effects that were produced, he communicated the fact to his associates in Philadelphia, and soon a hundred tubes were in use. Among those who devoted special attention to the subject were Franklin, Kinnersley, Philip Syng, and Thomas Hopkinson.
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In 1972 Larn left the Royal Navy as a Chief Petty Officer/ Weapons Electrical Mechanician to pursue a career in private business. After two years as Works Director for Partech Electronics International Ltd, Charlestown, helping the Company to move to Cornwall from Wellyn Garden City, he then founded a commercial diving training centre Prodive Ltd. initially in the Long Store, Charlestoiwn, then in Falmouth Docks, Cornwall, which aimed at improving the training standard of professional commercial deep sea divers in the oil and gas offshore industry. Prodive Ltd became one of only three diver training establishments in the UK approved to operate training to HSE Standards, and train Government sponsored students.
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Méthode pour la mesure des surfaces, la dimension des solides, leurs centre de pesanteur, de percussion et d'oscillation, 1700 Louis Carré (26 July 1663 – 17 April 1711) was a French mathematician and member of the French Academy of Sciences.. He was the author of one of the first books on integral calculus. This level of activity led to him being brought on as an Associate Mechanician on 15 February 1702 and being promoted to Pensioner on 18 August 1706. This provided him with an income which allowed him to devote himself entirely to his academic studies during the final five years of his life. At age 46 he suffered an attack of dyspepsia from which he died in 1711..
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Lancaster was the eldest son of Charles Lancaster, gunmaker, of 151 New Bond Street, London. He was born at 5 York Street, Portman Square, London, on 24 June 1820. On leaving school he entered his father's factory, where he practically learnt the business of a gunmaker and soon became a clever designer of models, a thoroughly skilled workman, and a mechanician of high order. The study of rifled projectiles and the construction of rifles was his chief pleasure, and he soon attained the highest skill as a rifle shot. In 1846, Lancaster constructed a model rifle with which he experimented at Woolwich with success at distances of 1,000 and 1,200 yards (920 and 1,100 m).
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As Cox's chief mechanician, Merlin worked with him to create pieces such as Cox's barometric clock (before 1768) and the Silver Swan (1773). In addition Merlin acted as a manager and curator of Coxs Jewelry Museum in Spring Gardens, which became a favored gathering-place of fashionable London between 1772 and 1775. Horace Walpole referred to the sort of creations displayed by Cox and Merlin as "scientific toys". Fanny Burneys characters visit Cox's museum and debate the significance of such creations in her novel Evelina. Samuel Johnson asserts the underlying importance of such efforts, writing of a visit to Cox's Museum in 1772: Harpsichord-Piano, 1780, Deutsches Museum Munich By 1773 Merlin was also actively designing and making keyboard instruments.
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Louis XVI gave him the appointment of "Royal Mechanician" (Mécanicien du Roi), and provided a studio for him in the gardens of the Louvre, where he used a burning-mirror for melting metals without fire. He invented a fire-engine which was very widely adopted and, in 1771, a machine for drilling metals. Another invention for mechanical engraving was one which enabled lace- manufacturers to engrave in a few hours elaborate patterns and designs which formerly had required at least six months work of the burin. Charpentier's device for lighthouse-illumination so pleased Louis XVI that he offered the inventor a pension and a place as the head of the Department of Beacons, asking him to fix the price for his discovery.
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From 1852–1857, George Wallis was the Headmaster of the Birmingham School of Design. In 1853 he was also the head of the only school of rifle design in Britain and as an acknowledged expert in the matter of small arms, he was appointed to a Royal Commission ostensibly to attend the Exhibition of Industry in the City of New York but particularly ‘to compare side by side the military weapons of the two countries’ along with his friend Joseph Whitworth.Norman Atkinson [1996] Sir Joseph Whitworth:‘The World's Best Mechanician’ Sutton, Stroud Gloucestershire. In 1855, he organised in Birmingham an Exhibition of Works of Industrial Art as an experiment in the circulation of artworks from central depositories around regional museums.
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Matteo or Mathieu Campani-Alimenis (born in Spoleto, Italy) was a mechanician and natural philosopher of the 17th century. Noua experimenta physico- mechanica (1666) He held a curacy at Rome in 1661, but devoted himself principally to scientific pursuits. As an optician he is chiefly celebrated for, the manufacture of the large object-glasses with which Cassini discovered two of Saturn's satellites, and for an attempt to rectify chromatic aberration by using a triple eyeglass; and in clock-making, for his invention of the illuminated dial-plate, and that of noiseless clocks, as well as for an attempt to correct the irregularities of the pendulum which arise from variations of temperature. Campani published in 1678 a work on horology, and on the manufacture of lenses for telescopes.
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Sheldon Weinbaum: (born July 26, 1937 in Brooklyn, New York, United States) is an American biomedical engineer and biofluid mechanician. He is a CUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering at The City College of New York. He is one of nineteen living individuals (edited 9/21/15) who is a member of all three U.S. national academies (National Academy of Science, National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Medicine) and also the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Bulletin Board: Triple Crown of Academies New York Times 10/23/2002 He was the founding director (1994–1999) of the New York Center for Biomedical Engineering, a regional research consortium involving the BME program at The City College and eight of the premier health care institutions in New York City.
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Donnchadh himself authored many poems in his compilation. His poems suggest Jacobite and Episcopalian sympathies tempered with a spirit of toleration. The oral tradition contained many tales of his ingenuity in practical matters and Professor Mackinnon in The Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness (Volume XI) provided this assessment of him: :"...undoubtedly Duncan Macrae, the engineer and mechanician, the ardent ecclesiastic, the keen though liberal-minded politician, the religious poet, and collector of the literature of his countrymen, is as different from the popular conception of a Highland Chief of the Revolution as can well be conceived." He also appears in a catalogue of heroes from Kintail in Time and Sgurr Urain, a poem by Sorley MacLean: :And Duncan of the Silver Cups :in high-wooded Inverinate.
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Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant (23 August 1797, Villiers-en-Bière, Seine-et-Marne – 6 January 1886, Saint-Ouen, Loir-et-Cher)J Boussinesq and A Flamant, Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M de Saint-Venant, Annales des ponts et chaussées 12 (1886), 557–595. was a mechanician and mathematician who contributed to early stress analysis and also developed the unsteady open channel flow shallow water equations, also known as the Saint-Venant equations that are a fundamental set of equations used in modern hydraulic engineering. The one-dimensional Saint-Venant equation is a commonly used simplification of the shallow water equations. Although his full surname was Barré de Saint- Venant in mathematical literature other than French he is known as Saint- Venant.
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By 1860, Austin was an assistant keeper at the Harbour Grace Island lighthouse and promoted to head keeper upon the death of his brother Edward in 1862, although Oke preferred to have his son relocated to a less dangerous post. Austin was initiated as a Freemason the next year and continued to follow in Oke's footsteps, installing the new light at Ferryland Head Lighthouse and repairing lights at other lighthouses. After Oke's death, Austin was promoted as “Mechanician of Lighthouses” for all of Newfoundland, worked as an inspector on behalf of the superintendent, oversaw new construction on site, and trained keepers. The family moved to what is now a historic home on Quidi Vidi Road in St. John's. Austin drowned in 1887 while rowing along the coast to La Poile Bay to reach the newly erected light tower on Ireland Island.
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The word cybernetics was first used in the context of "the study of self-governance" by Plato in Alcibiades to signify the governance of people. The word 'cybernétique' was also used in 1834 by the physicist André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836) to denote the sciences of government in his classification system of human knowledge. James Watt The first artificial automatic regulatory system was a water clock, invented by the mechanician Ktesibios; based on a tank which poured water into a reservoir before using it to run the mechanism, it used a cone-shaped float to monitor the level of the water in its reservoir and adjust the rate of flow of the water accordingly to maintain a constant level of water in the reservoir. This was the first artificial truly automatic self-regulatory device that required no outside intervention between the feedback and the controls of the mechanism.
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By substituting a mechanism for the hand in sending the message, he was able to telegraph about 100 words a minute, or five times the ordinary rate. In the Postal Telegraph service this apparatus is employed for sending Press telegrams, and it has recently been so much improved, that messages are now sent from London to Bristol at a speed of 600 words a minute, and even of 400 words a minute between London and Aberdeen. On the night of 8 April 1886, when Mr. Gladstone introduced his Bill for Home Rule in Ireland, no fewer than 1,500,000 words were dispatched from the central station at St. Martin's-le-Grand by 100 Wheatstone transmitters. The plan of sending messages by a running strip of paper which actuates the key was originally patented by Bain in 1846; but Wheatstone, aided by Mr. Augustus Stroh, an accomplished mechanician, and an able experimenter, was the first to bring the idea into successful operation.
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Born in Norfolk and raised in Great Yarmouth before being evacuated to Oxford during the Second World War, he went to a sea training school (TS. Mercury, Hamble) at the age of 14.Larn's biography on the website of Shipwrecks UK Ltd, retrieved February 10, 2010. Larn taught himself to dive in 1947, using a German-made Dräger U-boat escape set in the River Thames. He then joined the Merchant Navy where he served his apprenticeship as a deck-officer with the South American Saint LineLarn's biography on the website of the International Shipwreck Conference, retrieved February 10, 2010. and eventually became 2nd Mate. In 1950 he transferred to the Royal Navy where he stayed for 22 years. As a Chief Petty Officer Mechanician/diver he served in Korea and initiated diving from Dragonfly helicopters to recover ram-jet un-manned gunnery target drone aircraft off Malta, being dropped into the sea wearing diving equipment with Petty Officer John Guppy, up to five miles offshore, to assist a rescue tug in recovering the targets intact.
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